Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-19
IMMIGRATION OF 1887.
Figures shown how Fast Eui o-
peans are Coming TO America.

peans are Coming 10 America.
New YORK. May ,.
ANY hour of the day that travers,
the streets of lower New York | mee
strange professions, men and women
in queer clothing, carrying queer bun
dies and chattering in strange languages
They are Italians, Poles, Bohemians,
Russians and more rarely Swedes and
Irishmen. 1t is the first wave of that
enormo Gus immigration which is prom.
ised-some would say threatened-for
the year 1887. Already the arrivals
amount to 1000 a dayA One vessel
lately wrecked on Long Island had over
1900 Italians aboard. II the rate is
maintained the agents tell US it
will be greatly increased influx of
Europeans this year will vastly exceed
that IF the noted year 1882, when we
received 733, 992 immigrants; and there
is every reason to believe that this y ear
the number will exceed 100000
But the character of the immigration
has greatly changed. Germany sends US
but one third as many as she did six or
seven years ago, and Irish immigration,
which had sunk to low level, and re-
vived little early in tlSs decade, is
now falling of. Ireland and Germany
have disposed of their surplus popula-
ton Tor the present, and there
is room at home for their in
crease for a few years. The
countries showing an immense increase
are Russia, Austria, Italy aud Hungary.
These figures indicate their growth: In
1883 Russia sent us 1877; last year, 49,
9S7. AustriI's contribution has grown
from 2707 to 1912; Hungarys from
IL, l60 to is, 1876. GA the other hand,
Germany sent us l9S, 46S in 1882; in 1883
but 1861, in 1884 l4l, 922, the next
year 9S, Ill and last year only 1909;
and ireland, which sent SO, 76S in 'S3,
last year sent but 36,4l6 OF The new.
corners tho Russians present rather the
best appearance, being tall, vigorous
and with an air of resolution. They
are chiefly from the grain-growing re-
gions of the Black sea and the Danube,
and many of them are not Russians in
blood, as people Of other / aces have
long been located there.
In lS47 Castle Garden was set apart
for immigrants, and SYSTEM of regis
tration established; and thence TO April
lst of this year S,456, 279 have landed
there. The Irish immigration, which
notable as early as 1880, reached its
maximum IN the years following the
famine and in one year nearly 200, 900
lrishmen landed at American ports. And
strange to say, the immigration to Aus.
tralia and Canada was as large in pro.
portion. Hence these startling effects
on the island; In 1871 Ireland con
tained s, ,l96. 597 people; in 1850, 6,574,.
27l in 1871, 5.4l2.37 and in 1881, only
s, ia. S36.
Before our war it was a subject Of
frequent remark that only per cent. OF
the immigrants settled in the slave
States, and il was only natural to ex.
pect that emancipation would bring
change; the foreigner shuns the compe-
tition Of the freedman more than he did
that OF the slave, MS only 2 l,er cent.
now 60 south. Last year 300, SS7
registered their destina-
ton, and only 6,l26 went to the
south. Connecticut received S,023,
Illinois, 25,502; Minnesota, 1907:
Wisconsin, 8, lbs; Pennsylvania. Al lO3
tmany miners auloug them). aad New
York, 100, ,554. Not only do they 90
North, but to the extreme Northern
belt. OF the lie. 900 Swed ss who have
landed at New York in five years,
three-fourths went directly to the far
Northwest; and of the 81 ,905
who registered their destination
last year, seven-etghths went
northwest of Chicago. The census of
1880 showed that while the center of
total population was nssse miles south.
west OF Cincinnati, the s4nier of colored
population was as far southwest OF Ma.
con and that of foreiga just southwest
of Toledo. That Of 1890 is likely to
place it even north of that parallel,
for the Scandinayians 90 where their
neighbors and kinsmfn have already
gone. The immigration from Eng.
land is singnlarly even. varying
but little either way from 10000
a year. Last year it was 46, ,2I5. These
are mostly middle class farmers aud art.
isans. The ScandinAvians are very much
Of the same class. and tho Russians and
Austrians but little poorer; but tue
Poles, Huugarians, Bohemians and Itali.
ans are from the poorest of the poor
in those lands. Il is serious question
how far this sudden addition OF 5,000,-
900 people will affect the labor market;
and. If the influx continues, whether we
shall be able to work them over SO fast
into good American citizens
j. II. PARKE.